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...minority groups should stop making efforts to improve their images, but the primary motivation should be for themselves, not for everyone else. It’s important to care deeply about the image of your race, but when you have to feel personally embarrassed for something that didn??t involve you, as many black students seemed to in response to the Lowell incident, you are tacitly accepting and condoning generalizations. Allowing bigots to affect your well-being only gives them more satisfaction. The best thing to do is to reject the labels, reject the categorizations, and ignore...
Would that it were so. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who first posed the question about waterboarding, didn??t introduce it as an academic debate. He asked Mukasey whether or not waterboarding was constitutional because of reports from officials familiar with the CIA’s interrogation practices that waterboarding was used by the CIA on three terrorism suspects...
...there today and I didn??t see any mold. It has tables, a food court, it has a lot of study spaces, and it also has a gym and a pool, and it has offices and classrooms. It basically does everything,” said MIT freshman Ann Ouyang. “When I first saw it I thought it looked like a spaceship...
...banking and then do microfinance, that’s to me the exactly wrong approach to your own privilege. I found that a lot of what I thought would be useful wasn’t useful in the way I thought it would be. These people didn??t need someone with a Harvard degree, they need someone who would commit to them. I thought a Harvard degree would be useful in ways that weren’t that.” Ideally, he says, students would plunge right into service on an equal level with those they...
...billionaire demand that they embark on careers that almost universally result in economic privation. Others admired the bold sentiment and were empowered by the call to action. “It’s—I wouldn’t say hypocritical, but maybe ironic, that he didn??t start giving back until later. It’s that hindsight is 20/20 phenomenon. He can say what he wants to say, and he’s a living example of what he’s saying now, but he wasn’t for the last...